Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, once hailed by Democrats and the corporate press for defying President Donald Trump, was decisively rejected by his own partys voters in Tuesdays Republican gubernatorial primary, finishing a distant third and failing even to qualify for the runoff.
According to Gateway Pundit, Raffensperger came in third and will not make the runoff election between the two top Republicans, Burt Jones and Rick Jackson, a political humiliation in what the outlet described as a good ole Peach Tree State shellacking! The man some conservatives derisively call Brad the Rat was eliminated from the race outright, a remarkable fall for a statewide official who only a few years ago was being lionized by the liberal media as a bulwark against Trump and his supporters.
Raffenspergers national profile was built not on election integrity, but on his public clash with Trump over the disputed 2020 results in Georgia, a state where razor-thin margins and irregularities raised serious concerns among Republican voters. Raffensperger became a hero of the liberal media after he lied to the American public about the contents of a call he had with President Trump before the state certified the Georgia 2020 election, the outlet noted, underscoring how quickly the left embraced a Republican willing to undermine his own partys leader.
That now-infamous January 2, 2021 phone call between Trump and Raffensperger has since been the subject of extensive scrutiny, and new reporting has cast serious doubt on the narrative pushed by Democrats and their media allies. A 2024 report at The Federalist confirmed The Gateway Pundits reporting from over a year earlier that Brad Raffenspergers office most certainly committed a crime in January 2021 during the Georgia Secretary of States office phone call with President Trump on January 2, 2021.
Central to that allegation is the conduct of Jordan Fuchs, then Georgias Deputy Secretary of State and a close Raffensperger ally, who participated in the call. On February 21, 2023, Joe Hoft at The Gateway Pundit discovered that Jordan Fuchs, Georgias Deputy Secretary of State in 2020, who was on the January 2021 call with President Trump, taped the call from Florida without announcing it, the report stated, raising immediate legal red flags.
This was a criminal act since Florida is a two-party consent state, the article continued, noting that you must notify an individual before you record them in Florida. Jordan Fuchs did not do that when she recorded President Trump speaking with Raffenspergers team, and her second illegal act was destroying the audio recording, which was later discovered in her computers trash folder!
Mollie Hemingway at The Federalist confirmed our reporting from February of last year, reinforcing the claim that Raffenspergers office not only mishandled the call but weaponized it politically. On January 2, 2021, President Trump made a call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger asking him to look at some of the items that his auditor uncovered, and there was plenty of evidence for a competent auditor or any man of integrity to know that the election was uncertifiable.
Instead of addressing those concerns transparently, Raffenspergers team allegedly chose to manipulate the conversation for maximum political damage. Secretary of State Brad Raffensbergers office secretly recorded the phone call with President Trump, then lied about its contents later when they leaked it to the far-left Washington Post, the article charged, describing a calculated effort to smear the sitting president.
The Georgia Secretary of States office altered and released their inaccurate version of the call to the Washington Post the next day, and Raffenspergers office ran to the Washington Post and leaked a fraudulent transcript of the call. According to the report, Fuchs provided the WaPo with a fraudulent Trump quote that the paper ran in an anti-Trump hit piece on January 3, 2021, just as Democrats were gearing up for another impeachment spectacle.
They planned this to do the most damage to President Trump before the sham impeachment trial in the US Senate, the article asserted. It was totally planned for maximum effect, and when the deception unraveled, after they were caught lying to the American public, The Washington Post outed Jordan Fuchs as their anonymous source for the garbage hit piece.
On Tuesday night, Republican voters in Georgia finally rendered their verdict on this record of duplicity and media collusion. On Tuesday night, Republican voters in Georgia made sure that Raffensperger was finished, the outlet wrote, adding pointedly that Dirty Brad did not make the runoff election for governor.
For conservatives who have long viewed Raffensperger as a willing tool of the lefts narrative on 2020, his defeat is both vindication and a warning to other Republicans tempted to curry favor with hostile media at the expense of their own base. Look for Raffensperger to join a Democrat group as soon as he leaves office next year Until then, lets not let this controversial figure screw with the election results in the 2026 midterm elections!
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